Quotes about Self-reliance
This is God's signal to you: if you want, you are free; if you want, you will blame no one, you will accuse no one - if you want, everything will happen according to plan, yours as well as God's.
- Epictetus
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.
- Andrew Carnegie
Family preparedness has been a long-established welfare principle.
- Ezra Taft Benson
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
- Lao Tzu
What we want is to become masters in our own house.
- Michael Ignatieff
I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters.
- John Malkovich
I'm very secure in my life.
- Vivek Oberoi
It is only after you are able to stand on your own feet, or have the confidence that you can stand on your own feet, should you look at doing things such as marriage or setting up a family.
- Arundhati Bhattacharya
It's important to believe in yourself because if you don't believe in yourself, then no one else can believe in you.
- Shanice Williams
A free man, when he fails, blames nobody.
- Joseph Brodsky
When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.
- AA Milne
You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln